Back at the Under Falling Skies campaign, this time at threat level 1. (Level 2 was kicking my butt.) Won the first battle in chapter 2! I’m really liking the new mechanisms that are coming out in these chapters.

Not a big month for games, but lots of family fun nonetheless. The highlight was teaching Root to the 12yo and then hearing him ask everyday if we can play it. Hollywood 1947 was an all ages hit with our family and our friends in Boston. And in-person Challengers is always a treat.

Happy Halloween from the vagabond!

Decided to go with the Vagabond from Root this year!

I tried to stay on theme for the season during our game of Challengers last night. It worked well, thanks to that teenager card, but it was too little too late to make the finals.

This just in! Fliptown, a Western themed flip-and-write that uses a standard Poker deck! I’m thinking my father-in-law will like this, given his fondness for games that use Poker cards, like Hearts.

I got Root for a steal during the GameNerdz sale, and when it came in, the 12yo, who had never played it, wasted no time in setting the game up… his way. He loves making up his own games with my board game components.

We played Hollywood 1947 with our friends in Boston last weekend, the new Dark Cities game from Facade. It was fun at 8 players (ages 9 through me) with plenty of unfounded (and founded) rumors going around. One highlight was a comedy we made with a lot of Communist themes! Also props to the 9yo for holding her own as the Rising Star, the toughest team to play. They’re like the Dutch player in Tortuga 1667: they want the game to end in a tie.

We finished our second game of Treasure Island last night. The 12-year-old was Long John Silver this time, trying to keep the rest of us from his treasure. Thanks to some very clever bluffs, he pulled out the win! #DadLife

This just in! Rising Waters, a game about the 1927 Mississippi flood, designed by Scout Blum and published by Central Michigan University Press. Dig that box art, a piece of Harold Fisk’s 1944 meander map of the Mississippi River. I have two plates from that map hanging in my office.